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BRITAIN is in for a “rude shock” if our defence firepower is not drastically increased, the former head of MI6 has warned.
Sir Alex Younger said the country has become “infantilised” into believing we are living in a safer world – “and that’s rubbish”.
While stopping short of calling for full-throttle conscription, he said ministers needed to plan how citizens could be mobilised.
The ex-top spook told the BBC’s Today podcast: “I don’t think this is about blanket conscription, but I think it is about thinking about ways in which the broader country would participate and contribute to security in a time of an emergency, which you …
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